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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Prophet/Overseer Thiel: I am Really Getting Sick Of Having To Do This All By Myself!

Self appointed prophet and Overseer of his house church is soliciting
for money and help to get his fledgling mega church off the ground. So
far in these few short weeks it supposedly has reached more people than ANY
other Church of God has inhuman history. This really must have Davey Pack
ticked since he alone is the head of the world’s largest and best Church of God
ever!

While all of this sermon uploading was going on, I also got hit hard by a
virus that made it fairly difficult to carry out my daily duties (and
am barely functional now), but carried them out anyway.

Yes brethren, I am a TRUE martyr for the truth! Even
though I was sick I still did God's work!

This week, I received emails from New Zealand and Canada asking what some there could do to assist us of the Continuing Church of God in Arroyo Grande, California. One or more assignments were given based upon those requests.
But I would like to add is that what is really needed is prayer.
Specifically, notice something that Jesus said:

37…”The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are
few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers
into His harvest.” (Matthew 9:37-38)

So, please pray for that, as well as myself and my family, as we attempt to serve all of you.
Thank you for your support and encouragement as we strive to do what God would have us do.
Sincerely,
Bob Thiel, Pastor and OverseerContinuing Church of God

10 comments:

Anonymous
said...

" While all of this sermon uploading was going on, I also got hit hard by a virus that made it fairly difficult to carry out my daily duties (and am barely functional now), but carried them out anyway."

Oh my....natural vitimins did not prevent this????? Oh the humanity of it!!!!

I would have thought he could have seen this coming lol

Who ordained this guy??????????? Or are we skipping this step because of unusual circumstances. Was he not at least a Local Church Elder in LCG?

Again, a historical perspective is useful here: go back and look at the history of various COG's being raised up - it's standard for the leader to complain of the burden, and let everyone know what personal sacrifices they have made, please pray for them for God to give them the strength to continue, and boo hoo hoo, you followers should be in such awe of who God has chosen to lead you in these end times, etc.

"To share some details, first of all the audio portion of the last sermon did not record, so the sermon had to be done a second time. Then, when we went to upload it to YouTube, YouTube told us it would take 8-9 days to upload, so after about a day, we cancelled the upload and tried another computer at a different location. And then it took about 20 hours for the first phase to upload and multiple additional hours beyond that. To reduce problems like this, we ordered a new internet board that is supposed to be about 4 times faster. But it is supposed to take some time before it gets here. Anyway, there were a lot more complications with getting the sermon available, but what I have described should give an idea of some of the difficulties we faced.

While all of this sermon uploading was going on, I also got hit hard by a virus that made it fairly difficult to carry out my daily duties (and am barely functional now), but carried them out anyway. But, as Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world” (John 16:33)."

Bob, I have a few options as to why this may possibly be happening.

1. You are just having extraordinarily bad luck. But you dont believe in luck.

1a. You're having a bad week. That is all.

2. The camera hates you, youtube sucks, the sermon won't upload, everything is just plain going wrong because the devil is trying to stop you from doing The Work.

3. The camera hates you, youtube sucks, the sermon won't upload, everything is just plain going wrong because God is against you.

4. The camera hates you, youtube sucks, the sermon won't upload, everything is just plain going wrong because you are unordained lay person who has told everybody you are a prophet and a pastor and an overseer and you know this is not true, and you have not been blessed in your efforts.

5. You're just not the smartest bulb on the planet.

6. These are totally avoidable problems that are occurring because you're just doing it wrong.

7. This is just life and you're on your own with this.

8. The camera hates you, youtube sucks, the sermon won't upload, everything is going wrong, you're doing it wrong, the devil hates you, God is not blessing you, this is just life and you're on your own, and you need a beer.

9. The great and powerful prophet and potentially one of the two witnesses of the Book of Revelation and unordained pastor and overseer of God's Church in this remnant Philadelphia Era, tracing his legacy back to Jesus Christ in 31 A.D., the knower of all things prophetic and the understander of all things biblical, is going to use his magical prophet powers and zap it with a prophet ray and cause it to stop the rain and snow and cause famine, drought, and earthquake.

10. Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onion on a sesame seed bun. Go to McDonalds, have lunch, and quit trying to be so important. Spend time with your family and lead a normal life instead of living in what most see as delusions in fantasies. make something out of the rest of your life before you're 90 and look back and see the legacy you've created in regret and shame.

Some of the teachers to whom I now occasionally listen are of a completely different discipline. They seem to think that if God gives you work to do, He also gives you the energy, stamina, encouragement, and help to do it.That "Dr." Thiel apparently does not perceive these things would seem to speak volumes as to whose work he is actually doing.